10. Christopher Nolan Has A Thing For Classic Bond Movies
As if Inceptions final ski chase, modeled pretty damn closely after On Her Majestys Secret Service, didnt give you a hint, Chris Nolan likes the Bond movies a
lot. When Nolan and Goyer were looking to cinematic inspiration for their Batman tale, alongside influences like
The Man Who Would Be King and Lawrence of Arabia, they also looked back to some of the classic Bond movies. Nolan wanted to keep their Batmans technology relatively low tech, like in many of the early, less gadget laden Bond films of Sean Connery; Nolan also told critic Elvis Mitchell that part of the reason that Ras al Ghul appealed to him was because he was less like the grotesque, Dick Tracy inspired villains of classic Batman lore and
more of a Bond villain, like Hugo Drax or Karl Stromberg. Perhaps Nolan cast actor Shane Rimmer as Older Wayne Enterprises Water Technician (hes the white haired guy who keeps yelling Its gonna blow!) as a tribute; Rimmer appeared in four Bond films, and had his biggest part as a Navy commander in The Spy Who Loved Me, Nolans favorite of the Roger Moore Bonds. And, of course, Nolan and Goyer reinvented Lucius Fox from just CEO of Wayne Enterprises to Batmans Q, the guy Batman gets all his wonderful toys from. (This last change seems to have worked out for the best, because in his most recent comic book appearances, Fox seems to have become Wayne Enterprises' go-to tech expert.)